andydrizen

Hi, I'm the creator of Tube Tracker. In its first two years, a colleague and I built the departure board section. After going solo, I've spent almost all the free time over the last year building this app into what you see today. I don't have any funding or staff. It's taken a lot of work, and a lot of luck, but this week my app is being displayed on the front page of the UK App Store. I'd love to hear what you guys think of it.

I finished my maths PhD last year. The concept that PhD grads earn less than people who opted out of academia earlier makes a lot of sense to me.

PhDs grads aren't financially driven - they are mathematically driven - to the extent of thinking about problems all day. Everyone I knew used to keep a notebook and pen by the bed because waking up in the night with an idea was so common. With this much passion, the desire to leave academia for a well-paid industry job is low.

Yes, otherwise it's copyright infringement. I've been working on a mobile app for some time. As an indie developer, the map license is almost fatal for my project.

Did you have to get a licence to display this? TfL are pretty strict about reproducing their map, even more so if it's going to be available offline on a mobile device.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/7482.aspx

Doesn't want to take money because it alters his vision of the movie. $10K - have a line in the film. $7K - name a character.

Not true. We have 24hour pubs.

Sorry to be "that guy", but there's a typo in your subheading: "Never ever loose your favorite Hacker News stories"

This service converts your email into an image. You can save a copy of the image, and keep it forever, even though the mail will disappear. It's novel, but I'm not sure I see use-case for it.

If you like this, see DeTeXify http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html